best way to prevent a DocumentEvent cycle?

Question

I have a JTextField with a Suggestion-Popup. A DocumentListener listen to all InsertUpdate-Events and check the Suggestion-List and open the Popup. If you click on a Suggestion-Entry in the Popup, the choosen Word will be set to the JTextField and the Popup closes. But this will fire a new InsertUpdate-Event and the Popup opens again.

I do not want to use a boolean flag or remove and add the Listener so often. Is there another way to prevent a DocumentEvent cycle? Or is there a Way to set the Text silently? I tryed:

 this.getTextComponent().getDocument().insertString()
 this.getTextComponent().setText()

Answer 1

There is no way to insert the text without firing an event nor is there a second API which fires different events for changes by the user and changes by the code (as in Qt, for example). You have to use a boolean guard or disable the listener in another way.

Btw, SWT suffers from the same bad design.

Answer 2

1) remove the listener
2) insert the popup text
3) add the listener